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Bottom raised by female playwright (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sheridan

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'playwright' is the definition.
(I know that Sheridan is a playwright)

'bottom raised by female' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'female' could be 'she' ('she' refers to a woman) and 'she' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for sheridan that I've seen before include "Irish dramatist" , "- Le Fanu, Ir. novelist" , "School for Scandal playwright" , "Irish playwright (The Rivals)" , "Richard Brinsley ........, Anglo-Irish author of ` `The School for Scandal' '" .)

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